Cambridge - Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Nov. 30, 1914 [November 30, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Cloudy, calm mild but chilly.
  In Garden: a Fox Sparrow & a
White-throat [White-throated Sparrow]; also a dozen or
more House Sparrows.
  Spent forenoon in Museum
working on Black-backed three-toed
Woodpecker story and at length
completing the first page of it.
  Gilbert & I left the house at 2 P.M.
and motored to Concord reaching
that village at 3. Although I
kept on the watch for birds all
the way the only one of any kind
seen by me was a hen Pheasant
that ran across the road in Waltham.
  We got to the farm about 3.30.
I went down into the woods
startling a Partridge there & a
cock Pheasant at the edge of the
orchard. George Baker reports 10
Pheasants in Cedar Park this morning.
Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1914 [December 1, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Cloudless, absolutely windless, almost
too warm for comfort.
  Birds everywhere in unusual
numbers & variety for this season.
Within sight or hearing of farm house
25+ Juncos (in orchard), 5 [in a flock] Chickadees
(mobbing Screech Owl in hollow apple tree),
Crows (sev. [several]) Jays (4 or 5, very noisy), Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
(heard), cock Pheasant started in run, 5
gray birds in buckwheat, Screech Owl (in
hollow apple tree, mobbed by Chickadees).
In run 2 Canada Nuthatches, In Pulpit
Rock pines 2 [Canada Nuthatches] & Brown Creeper.
In Birch Field 3 Goldfinches & Pine Linnets
heard. In Green Field 1 Yellow rump W. [Yellow-rumped Warbler],
5 Chickadees, 2 Golden crests [Golden-crested Kinglet], 25 + Juncos
In Prescott Pines 2 [Golden-crested Kinglets]. On
Pine Hill 2 Canada Nuthatches. In
Bensen's weedy field 7 Juncos.
Cutting Christmas pines with Burbank
in forenoon. Visited Birch Field, Green
Field & Ball's Hill. Wood very beautiful
& restful. Air almost summerlike.
Spent P.M. out of doors on farm
pruning grape vines, thimbleberries etc.